Bhagavad Gita Chapter 15 - Lesson 7 of 8

THE SIGNIFICANCE

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OF MAHABHARAT

This whole history is such a beautiful
happening. Mahābhārat is actually your
life! Every character in the Mahābhārat
teaches so much! We don't need to go
anywhere for our life success or
fulfillment or for anything else that we
may desire. We don't need to study any
other book to learn the human
psychology or the science of living and
leaving. Whether we seek righteous
living—dharma; or we want to learn
business or administration, economy or
abundance—artha; or we want to create
the best rich lifestyle—kāma; or we
want to be a leader and want the
enriching life of being enlightened—
mokṣa, for all these purposes,
we don't need anything other than the
Mahābhārāt!

Study each character. We will not find any more characters in our life than the characters described in the Mahābhārāt!

Any character we see in our life is mapped to Mahābhārāt’s one character. They are either half or full representation of some character.

To know how to handle them and even handle yourself, just see how Śrī Kṛṣṇa handles them and handle them the same way. The Mahābhārāt war is a representation of life as it was lived in that age.

Vyāsa, its author is an unbiased historian who recorded the whole history as it happened without trying to apply any makeup. People ask whether the Mahābhārāt war happened at all!

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MAHABHARAT

If the Mahābhārāt was a story and not history, Vyāsa should receive multiple Pulitzer prizes for his highly creative work! The Mahābhārāt is the longest literary work in the whole world with hundred thousand Saṃskṛt verses—the longest poem ever written with such delicate harmony of unmatched poetic perfection. It is larger than the Greek epics. Vyāsa had no computer, no tape recorder with speech-to-text capabilities. He dictated and Bhagavān Ganeṣa wrote it down!

A divine figure with an ornate turban and jewellery